Happy and Healthy (We Both Read Series)

Children's Literature - Monserrat Urena

This slim text is full of page after page of colorful photographs illustrating the importance of healthy living and healthy eating. The pictures portray a number of fun activities that inspire children to be healthy, and they show them several fun means of sharing these healthy habits with their friends and family. The format of the book is accessible to both children and adults. The text on the left page, meant to be read by an adult or advanced reader, is in smaller print, has larger numbers of words, and a more complicated sentence structure. The right page, meant to be read by the child, has larger print and is made up of simple sentence structures. This side-by-side learning allows an adult to share in a child's learning experience. This combined experience also establishes a shared learning experience between adult and child that can be utilized both in the home environment and in the school environment.